Chaco & Hohokam
Subtitle: prehistoric regional systems in the American Southwest
By: edited by Patricia L. Crown & W. James Judge.
Contributors: Crown, Patricia L.; Judge, W. James; School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: School of American Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School of American Research Press; Distributed by the University of Washington Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M; [Seattle, Wash.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Hohokam culture; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.); Southwest, New -- Antiquities
Other titles: Chaco and Hohokam.
Description: Papers and discussions (from a 1987 seminar held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico), along with a chapter that summarizes and synthesizes the presentations, offer new data, current thinking, and a set of case studies on two of the Southwest's most sophisticated cultures of prehistoric times. The authors examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, exchange of goods, and social organization with an emphasis on explaining and comparing cultural origins, growth, maintenance, and decline.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-360) and index.
Papers from a seminar held in Oct. 1987; sponsored by the School of American Research.